Widgets & Actions

I have the “Play Sound” Action ready, but actions don’t have the same type of ease of installation that is found with screen savers, where double-clicking it will install it (either in the user’s folder, or in the main library folder). So I wrote a small installation program to handle this, hopefully it is lightweight enough to make it easy for any user, and look nice too. I went for Applescript Studio for the installer (I thought it would be faster to develop), but it makes me appreciate the advantages of Cocoa more, I think.

Also developing a widget. Or two. Both powered by PHP, because a) it’s installed on Tiger, and b) it’s really easy to write with. Maybe I’ll convert them to Cocoa or something later (Cocoa is fast!), but I really want to get some feedback on them.

Working with Automator

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  • http://www.top-frog.com Shawn

    I didn’t think you could count on using php in automator since not all users have turned on PHP and that PHP is off by default. Did this change in Tiger?

  • http://jamesbadger.ca/ James

    Err, I meant PHP for use in a dashboard widget. The Automator action is made in Cocoa.

    I’m pretty sure that even if PHP is disabled for Apache, that the command line version still works. If it doesn’t, then I’d have to convert them to PERL, which I know very little about.

  • http://jamesbadger.ca/ James

    It would seem I’ve tried to make a too complex solution to a simple problem; AppleScript Studio isn’t as versatile as I’d like, and I’ve resorted to building the Installer program with, ironically, Automator. It works, so it will be available for download soon.

    (: